US gun policy that allows kids, criminals and terrorists to access military style weapons and handguns without any reasonable restrictions or even detection in 32 states where there isn't even a criminal background check requirement for all gun sales.

Thursday January 24, 2013, 12:25 pm
I remember seeing someone post elsewhere who said that when her sister bought a gun (forget what state) it instantly made her an NRA member. Don't know the details but that's rather heinous isn't it.

"32 Number of states in the US that allow ANYONE to purchase firearms without an ID or criminal background check"
Now I can hardly believe that. You mean a convicted criminal? Even somebody who has already done time for gun related felonies? Wow. How far are the antisocial gun sellers willing to bend over backwards to assist crime and criminals in the U.S? Give 'em out like candy to anyone if they have the money 'cuz we don't wanna infringe on yur God-given 'merican rights buddy!'

Thursday January 24, 2013, 12:29 pm
NRA---The Nihilistic Rats-Nest Association (of or believing in nihilism, or the total rejection of established laws and institutions:
2. embracing anarchy, terrorism, and destruction: nihilstic tactics learned in a terrorist bootcamp.

I'd like to see a number showing the number of people who successfully defended themselves each day by having a gun. Just currious--I'm not suggesting that ownership of guns for protection be denied for those people who want them

Thursday January 24, 2013, 12:53 pm
how many more tragedies have to happen before we take action? most amendmentshave laws surrounding them...it is not taking away your rights...NRA, get out of my life!

Thursday January 24, 2013, 6:52 pm
Not the whole story. More of the concerted effort to censor any real discussion. Bouchard you are very wrong.
http://www.naturalnews.com/038484_Gandhi_quote_Facebook_censorship.html
Yes face book censors what you can read.
Another issue that the media does not discuss: defensive use of firearms.
http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcdguse.html
If we are to have dialogue then why the censorship?

Thursday January 24, 2013, 8:06 pm
More guns, more gun violence... pretty common sense. It's like more drugs, more drugs abuse.... still common sense.

We actually have more gun deaths from accidents than murders in our country. And our gun murders are the highest of any deveoped country and most developing countries.

Should people be able to defend themselves? Yes, they probably should. Though, you have to realize that most criminals or people that will shoot up a school, workplace, etc get guns from "responsible" owners or go out and purchase them legally.

Every issue has a cost and a benefit, sometimes several of each. We have to see in this debate, which outweighs which. Unfortunately, not everyone can have their cake and eat it too. We have to start looking at what benefits society, not always the individual. This sense of entitlement due to our extreme individualism is really negatively impacting our society.

Friday January 25, 2013, 7:15 am
The numbers speak for themselves - Lawrence O'Donnell said this not about gun control but about gun safety. That makes sense to me - we ought to be able to go to the movies, the mall, school without fear of being shot.

Friday January 25, 2013, 1:32 pm
I don't know how accurate those numbers are, but i don't doubt that the overall picture is true. Still, who can say for sure what would be the most effective method for changing this problem in the US? Experts, I guess. And I'm not one.

Friday January 25, 2013, 3:41 pm
It's gotten pretty sick when you have 20 first graders murdered, and the response from the NRA is to arm teachers. Every time some regulations are mentioned, NRA strikes back with more batsh*t crazy talk....so maybe it's time that we just tell them, "sure, we want to completely ban gun ownership in the US, and confiscate them all." Watch their heads explode....then, they'll be ready to listen to some sensible restrictions.

Friday January 25, 2013, 9:26 pm
At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago."